{"product_id":"transgressing-the-modern-explorations-in-the-western-experience-of-otherness-hardback-9780631211099","title":"Transgressing the Modern; Explorations in the Western Experience of Otherness (Hardback) 9780631211099","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTransgressing the Modern\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eExplorations in the Western Experience of Otherness\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Jervis (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780631211099, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 October 1999\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e244 pages\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 2.4 cm, 0.59 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Transgressing the Modern is what should be impossible: 'a carnival of representation' which subverts controversial boundaries between social theory, the humanities and the arts. It excavates the richest veins in modern western societies' endless struggles to marginalize, exclude and repress whatever makes them uncomfortable. John Jervis has written a wonderful synthesizing book - creative, imaginative and deeply suggestive of a better way forward.\" \u003ci\u003eRob Stones, University of Essex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book provides the most concise, accessible account yet available of modern Western cultural and social explorations of 'other' forms or aspects of life that are devalued or coded as unacceptable, even unthinkable, in the modern ethos.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Plates. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The Civilising Imperative.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Carnival Pleasures and The Spectre of Misrule.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Manners and Morals: The Civilisation of Culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Modernity and its Others.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Exotic Encounters: Savagery, Civilisation and the Imperial Other.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The Alienated Mind: Reason and The Exile of Madness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Modernity's Sphinx: Woman as Nature and Culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. The Rape and Romance of 'Nature'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Forbidden Desires: Taboo, Transgression and Sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Continuities, Challenges, Transformations.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Blacks, Whites and Hybrids.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Postmodern Possibilities: Alienating The Modern.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKey Terms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGuide to Further Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52316807725336,"sku":"9780631211099","price":93.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780631211099.jpg?v=1781826091","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/transgressing-the-modern-explorations-in-the-western-experience-of-otherness-hardback-9780631211099","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}